Name: draft-liumin-multi6-loadsharing-00
Title: Load Sharing in Multihomed Host
State: Active
Authors: M Liu
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-12-16
In order to reach the goal of load sharing and traffic engineering in
multihoming, there must be some mechanism for the local host to make a
selection of the "best" source locator to used. Obviously the selection
includes the objective to select a currently viable path. What's more, it
also includes the objective to select a path with larger bandwidth, which
is more difficult to judge than reachability. In this memo, we propose a
simple mechanism to determine the availability and bandwidth condition
between a multihomed host and its ISP. It will help to share the load among
multiple paths and provide better performance for the host's traffic. This
mechanism could be part of traffic engineering functions, which could be
used as the basis of locator selection before initial session establishment
and aslo could be used to trigger locator swithes to avoid loss of
connectivity, long delay or large loss rate.
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